Short Story Competition Results
2022/2023

Winner: “Cold Caller”
By Keith Porter
2nd Place: “Seven Locations from Which I am Absent”
By Peter Hankins
3rd Place: “The Oaths”
By Eugene O’Toole
Also Short Listed:
Hair of the Dog Pose - Dan Micklethwaite
Shoes - David Butler
The Ocean is a Desert - Susan Iona Swan
Long Listed Entrants:
Fiona Barber Letty Butler, Stephen Bridger, Chad Broughman, Dianne Bown- Wilson, Libby Boyd, Yvonne Clark, Rosemary Dickson,
Mary T Ellenburg, Tom Farrel, Valerie French, Joanna Garbutt, Juliet Hill, Richard Hooten, Don Horne, Leanne Jepson, Bernie McCarthy, Ewan McLeish, Jennifer McMahon, David Micklem, Kieran Mitchell, Johanna Spiers, Matt Thomas, Erica Ward, Julia Wood
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We thank you all for entering. If your entry did reach the long and short lists this year, please take courage from the fact that competition was fierce, and that so many wonderful stories missed by a single (or even a fraction of a) point.
A big thankyou to our judges Tim Symonds and Leslie Abdela